HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C., AND 43, PICCADILLY, W. 677 



13526 PORTA (Giovanni Battista della; Napoletano) De DISTILLATIONS Lib. IX, quibus certa 

 Methodo, multipliciq; Artiticio, penitioribus Naturae Arcanis detectis, cuiuslibet mixti in propria 

 Elementa Resolutio, perfecte docetur, editio princeps ; with fine engraved portrait cet. 64 by 

 J. Laurus, and numerous large woodcuts of chemical apparatus, etc., sm. 4to. contemporary white 

 vellum (portrait and some II. stained and browned}, 16s 



Romas, ex Typogr. Rev. Camerce Apostoliccv, 1608 



13527 ANOTHER COPY, contemporary white vellum (sound and clean copy), 1. Is 



1.3528 A LARGE PAPER COPY, printed on blue paper, 4to. contemporary white vellum gilt, with 



arms in gold on sides (FINE COPY), 1. 15s 



Copies on blue paper are VERY RARE. Graesse only knew one such copy, that in the Biblioteca Riccardiana, Florence. 

 Coloured paper of such an early date is also a curiosity in the art of paper-making. 



1.3529 EDITIO NOVA, nunc primiim in Germania Typis vulgata ac Indice Capitum et 



Materiaruni exornata ; with fine engraved portrait by J. v. Heiden, and the numerous woodcuts 

 re-engraved, sm. 4to. boards, covered with old MS. on vellum (sound and clean copy] ; RARE, 15s 



Argentorati, L. Zetzner, 1609 



The lirst edition printed in Germany, and unknown to Graesse. It contains an index which is not included in the first 

 edition ; the woodcuts are also more neatly executed than in the former edition. 



The above copy belonged to Samuel Eglinger, M.D., professor of mathematics, Basel University (1(338-73), and bears the 

 following inscription on flyleaf: ' Sam. Eglingeri D. A<> MDCLXIII. Fcelix qui potuit rerii cognoscere causas ! Symb.' 



'Ouvrage curieux en ce qu'il donne un etat exact de la chimie au seizieme siecle.' Biogr. Gen. 



13530 La FISONOMIA dell' HUOMO, et la CELESTE : Libri Sei, tradotti di Latino in Volo-are, et 



hora in questa Settima Impressione ricorretta, cou la Fisonomia Naturaie di Monsignor Giovanni 

 Ingegnieri, di Polemone, di Adamantio, et il Discorso di Livio Agrippa sopra la Natura e Com- 

 plessione Humana, con il Trattato di Neidi Lodovico Settali, aggiontovida nuovo la Metoposcopio 

 di CiRO SPONTONE; with full-page woodcut portrait (different from the foregoing ones), and very 

 numerous large woodcuts, 4to. boards, uncut, 16s Venetia, N. Pezzana, 1668 



' Tout en profitant des observations d'Aristote, de Polemon et d'Adamantius, Porta a deploye tant de sagacite dans ses 

 propres recherches qu'il peut passer pour le veritable fondateur de la physiognomic.' Biogr. Gen. To this edition is added 

 the Celeste Fisonomia (v. No. 13515 supra). 



13531 De OCCULTIS LITERARUM NoTis, seu Artis Animi sensa occulte aliis significandi, aut 



ab aliis signincata expiscandi enodandique Libri IIII ; explicantur autemintercseteraetc. veterum 

 quoque Scriptorum Loca, hac de Arte loquentia ; indidemque petita ; with woodcuts and figures, 

 12mo. sound and clean copy in old pressed calf (RARE), 1. 12s Qd Montisbeligardi, J. Foillet, 1593 



13532 EDITIO NOVA, priori castigatior, cui [Liber QUINTUS et] AUCTARIUM accesserunt, 



Additamenta quaedam continens, ad prcecedentes Libros, turn novis inventis, turn pluribus 

 Exemplie, auctiores et illustriores reddendos ; with numerous woodcuts and figures, thick 12mo. 

 fine copy in contemporary white vellum, 1. 10s Argentorati, L. Zetzner, 1606 



The ftrst edition of this work was published in four books in 15(53 as De Furtivis Literarum Nbtis. The fifth book was 

 first published in the edition of Naples, 1592, and the above first contains the ' Auctarium ' and is the last mentioned by 

 Riccardi. 



' Dans ce traite de chiffres ou d'ecriture secrete, il indique 180 procede"s differents et met en outre sur la voie de les 

 multiplier a 1'infini.' Biogr. Gen. 



13533 PNEUMATICORUM Libri III, quibus accesserunt CURVILINEORUM ELEMENTORUM 



Libri II, editio princeps; with vignette on title and numerous woodcuts and diagrams, 2 vols. 

 sin. 4to. in 1, old white vellum (a few II. very slightly wormed, otherwise a large and fine copy) ; 

 RARE, 1. 5s Neapoli, Jo. Jac. Carlinus, 1601 



This work is of interest as containing the earliest attempt towards measuring the volume of steam given off by a given 

 quantity of water. . 



' An apparatus similar to that of Hero of Alexandria is described by della Porta in his Pneumatics, published in 1601, 

 with this addition, that the condensation of steam within a close vessel is described as a means of producing a vacuum, 

 and thereby causing water to ascend and fill the vessel'. Prof. RanUne, F.R.S. 



The above volume first contained the author's work on curves, which was republished in an enlarged form in 1610. 



13534 I TRE LIBRI de' SPIRITALI, cioe d'iNALZAR ACQUE per FORZA dell' ARIA [tradotti, colle 



Aggiunte dell' Autore, da JUAN ESCRIVANO] ; with vignette, on title, and numerous woodcuts, 

 cr. 4to. FINE COPY in brown morocco, with bookplate of Henry B. H. Beaufoy, F.R.S. (RARE), 

 1. 5s ibidem, a. e., 1606 



The Italian translation of the Pncumatica, first containing the illustration celebrated in the history of the steam engine. 



' On trouve a la page 75 de cet opuscule une figure representant la machine inventee par Porta pour elever 1'eau a 1'aide 

 de la force elastique de la vapeur, figure dont Fr. Arago a donne un fac-simile dans son Histoire des machines a vapeur'. 

 Brwiet. There is also an illustration of a thermoiscope on page 76. 



' Bans la traduction italienne des Pneumatiqiies, Porta parle des moyens a employer pour connaitre en combien d'air se 

 transforms une quantite donnee d'eau. Cet air n'est autre chose que la vapeur, et Ton ne peut se refuser a voir ici une des 

 premieres applications faites par les modernes de ce puissant moteur. Au meme endroit Porta traite de la rarefaction de 

 1'air par la chaleur, et 1'applique & un instrument, qui est une espece de thermometre'. M. Libri. 



13535 PORTA LEONE (Abrahamo [ben David Arie], Mantuanus, Medicus Hebrceus) De AURO 

 DIALOGI TRES, in quibus non solum de AURI in RE MEDICA FACULTATE, verum etiam de 

 SPECIFICA eius, et caeterarum Rerum Forma, ac Duplici Potestate, qua mixtis in omnibus ilia 

 operatur, copiose disputatur. Cum Licentia SANCT^E INQUISITIONIS, et Illustrissimi Senatus 

 v eneti ; with plate of emblem, sm. 4to. old white vellum (some II. browned, otherwise a FINE COPY) ; 

 RARE, 1. 15s Venetiis, J. B. a Porta, 1584 



An iatro-chemical work of importance, in which the author denies that the internal use of gold lengthens life, and 

 containing matters of interest to the historian of chemistry and physics. It was unknown to Poggendorff, Brunet, 

 Graesse, and other bibliographers. 



13536 POBTLOCK (Major-Gen. Joseph Ellison, R.E., F.R.S.) REPORT on the GEOLOGY of the 

 COUNTY of LONDONDERRY, and of Parts of TYRONE and FERMANAGH, with 38 lithographs of Fos- 

 sils, 9 folding plates (some coloured), woodcuts, and large coloured map, thick 8vo. cl., 8s Dublin, 1843 



' He was a geologist after my own heart.' Sir Roderick Murchison. 



13537 POSEIjGEB (Friedrich. Tlieodor ; Berlin) Das TAYLOR'SCHE THEOREM, als GRUNDLAGE 

 der FUNCTIONEN-RECHNUNG, 4to. (pp. 26), sewn, 2s [Berlin, 1835] 



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